Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: dt: i2c: use correct STMicroelectronics vendor prefix

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Jun 28 2016 - 16:57:02 EST


On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 02:34:04AM -0700, Stefan Agner wrote:
> The documentation currently uses the non-standard vendor prefix stm
> and st-micro for STMicroelectronics. The drivers do not specify the
> vendor prefixes since the I2C Core strips them away from the DT
> provided compatible string. Therefor, changing documentation and
> existing device trees does not have any impact on device detection.

For Linux at least...

>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hi,
>
> Mark mentioned that issue already once in the past, see:
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1309.0/01686.html
>
> Not sure through which trees this patches should flow, I guess
> the first through Wolfram's tree, the ARM changes through Arnd
> or Shawns tree (mostly Freescale boards are affected), not sure
> about the PowerPC changes...

I can take the series. dts files shouldn't be changing causing
conflicts.

Rob